says to jake tapper, oh, it's disgusting their discussing meetings with russia. now we know from his own e-mail, he did. >> sara fagan. >> i didn't use the word collusion. >> there may or may not. there may or may not be a real story or any there there. but the reality is, there's now a special counsel. the best thing for the president to do is to not go do interviews and talk about russia but to talk about his agenda and let his lawyers, mr. sekulow, very capable this morning. let his lawyers talk about it and he should stop talking about it. >> good luck with that. >> and don't threaten the special prosecutor. >> you see the strains trump is under. there are a lot of advisers who do want him to defer to the legal team. on the other hand, his son has

i'm jim sciutto in for jake tapper. we begin with the president's golf weekend outside new york laying the groundwork for a very important week ahead, including his first face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. today he was working the phones, talking with world leaders from italy, france and germany while also taking the time to keep up attacks on the media. maki making backlash over a particular tweet where he slams the media in a professional wrestling match. ryan, white house officials backing off from defending the president's social media rant? >> no, they're not, jim. in fact, they're arguing it's the media focusing on the wrong things, and despite the president's controversial tweets, he's still getting the job done. president trump tonight is dialing up his no holds barred attacks on the media. punctuated with a video showing the president attacking a person whose face shows the local media. >> they tried to stop us from going to the white house. but i'm president and they're not. >> reporte

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we're talking cnn, abc, we know jake tapper. also abc, nbc, cbs, and msnbc. of this story on the air. >> right. and jessica's absolutely right. i mean, this is not something that the average democrat is in support of or promoting. so it's really disappointing to see that many of the media outlets are not even acting like this happened at all, and i think it is something important that we pay attention to because i would love to see these female senators say that this is wrong. want that we need to disavow the women's march but this is not something the women's march should be supporting. liz: and, guys, i know women who brought their children to these marches. they don't like it. they don't like what they're seeing. thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. next up, senator john mccain revealing he does have a brain tumor. dr. siegel weighs in after this. potsch: you each drive a ford pickup, right? (in unison) russ, leland, gary: yes. gary: i have a ford f-150. michael: i've always been a ford guy. potsch: then i have a real treat for you today.

i said this to jake tapper over the weekend. if the russians really hacked that thing, they could possibly be clever enough not to leave any footprints. so the president is skeptical. while we talked last night at dinner -- i hope he's not mad at me for relaying this on tv, but i'll relay it. he said he thought for sure after reading all this stuff as an outsider that there were actually weapons of mass destruction in iraq. he said that last night. then he said there obviously weren't weapons of mass destruction in iraq, so he has his guard up as relates to some of the things that people say definitively and declaratively. the cia director at the time said it was a slam dunk. i'm not going to bring his name up. he's a terrific guy and made a mistake. big deal. the point is when you say we know definitively or jake tapper says he knows definitively, thank god we have president trump in the room who will have a little skepticism and a cautious eye on this stuff, protecting the american people and particularly american servicemen.

jake tapper, thank you so much for all that. thank you, sir. >>> let's talk north korea now. the pentagon is telling cnn that pyongyang has fired another ballistic long-range missile, this one up in the air for about 45 minutes, about 8 minutes longer than the last landed just about 80 miles off the coast of japan. kim jong un has now launched a dozen missiles this year, and this comes as nears grow about progress toward developing a nuclear weapon. cnn's will ripley is live in beijing. he has spent a lot of time inside of north korea and jamie metsal is here with me, a former staff member on the national security council and a senior fellow on the atlantic council and he's also just back from china where he held meetings about the future of north korea. so, will ripley, just first to you, tell me more about the trajectory of this icbm, the significance that it was so close to japan, and any sort of reaction. >> reporter: south korea's saying, brooke, that this is more advanced than the icbm that was launched on the fourth of july. its highest altitude was 3700 kilometers, ar

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i'm jake tapper.nning news in our politics lead today, the release of an e-mail chain from last june between donald trump jr. and this man, rob goldstone, a british-born reporter, publicist and associate of the trump family dating back to the miss universe pageant in mcow in 2013. the subject line of the e-mail chain, russia climate

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i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. all those stories right ahead, but first, for the second night in a row, protesters are swarming the streets of hamburg, germany, the site of the g20 summit, and president trump's meeting earlier with russian president vladimir putin where election meddling was discussed at length. first to the action outside, right now police are trying to calm a chaotic scene as night falls in germany. i want to go straight to cnn's fred pleitgen. he's right down there in the crowd in the middle of it all. what's going on there now, fred? >> reporter: i apologize for all the noise. there is quite a lot of confusion going on next to me. there are several demonstrations going on in hamburg. as you can see, there is a considerable police presence at this one as well. a couple blocks from here, i would say about a mile and a half, there is another demonstration that has apparently turned very violent. there are barricades that have been set on fire, and what we have just learned from the hamburg police

i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in the politics lead today. an admission of the oldest son of president trump, donald trump jr., admitted he had a meeting with a russian lawyer with the kremlin after hearing she might have information for the campaign of hillary clinton. obviously the first person to take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. it went nowhere but had to listen. trump jr. took this meeting because he was promised damaging information about clinton. he wasn't the only one in the room also there. the president's son-in-law jared kushner and then-campaign chairman paul manafort. this seems somewhat of a reversal of a statement trump had given hours earlier when he said that meeting was to primarily discuss adoption of russian orphans. there was no evidence that anyone on the trump team knew at the time of the russian hack of the democratic national committee, but it is worth noting that a few weeks after that meeting, after the hack of the e-mails was made public, trump wa

i'm jake tapper. the maxim for crisis management in washington, d.c. when beset with a can sdscandal, get all t information. get it out as soon as possible and get it out on your own terms. apparently in keeping with its desire to do things differently, the trump team seems determined to violate this sage advice in every possible way. though it seemed a few nights ago that they thought this latest ordeal might be all over. >> so as far as you know, as far as this incident is concerned, this is all of it. >> this is everything. this is everything. >> this was not everything. we are still learning new facts about that meeting that the president's son, donald trump jr., his then-campaign chairman paul manafort and his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner had, last june, june 16, billed with a russian lawyer a desire to hurt clinton. today we learned more people were in that meeting than just the lawyer and the three members of the trump team. a native source reported that a russian lobbyist with ties to russian intelligence was also in that meeting

i'm jake tapper. growing threats from north korea.his morning an official told kim jong-un a weapons program could help them launch a reliable, nuclear capable, intercontinental ballistic missile by early next year. we have only five months left this year, which means threats from pyongyang could mean more imminent than ever. president trump, instead of addressing this new assessment, instead of focusing on the new north korea strategy or isis strategy for that matter, instead said he is banning transgender from serving in the military in any capacity, including those already in the reserves. barbara starr, the president said transgender members would cause disruption but they've been serving open formally for . have they caused any disruption? >> milt tathe military has yet r any reports of disruption. the question now is what will happen to those already serving? president trump making military policy via twitter, today suddenly announcing the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any

and that's it for the lead, i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper.jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. >>> happening now, breaking news. violent clashes, riot police battle anti-globalization protesters as thousands take to the streets boozing the g20 summit in germany where president trump is holding high stakes meetings with world leaders. once again openly questions the u.s. intelligence community which concluded with confidence that putin directed the attack on u.s. democracy.

jake tapper asked the president's attorney about those campaign funds being used to pay legal bills. >> is that an acknowledgement that the meeting with the russian lawyer that he thought was with the russian government was official campaign business? the fact the trump campaign paid $50,000 to trump jr.'s attorney? >> look, i'm not involved in the discussions with the lawyers on who paid what entity and i certainly don't represent donald trump jr. but, look in a situation like this, this is not an unusual situation where the individual that's being questioned or subject to questioning, donald trump jr., retains counsel. it involved an incident that involved an e-mail campaign in a meeting when he was working, doing work for the campaign. so that to me is not an unusual scenario or unusual setup at all, but, look, i don't know the final determination of who's paying what bills to whom. i think that's still in process. >> i think a lot of people who give money to the trump campaign will be surprised they're paying for legal bills of donald trump jr. >>> joining me now, michael zeldin,

i'm jake tapper. senator john mccain in the wee hours of the morning voting no on the republicans' latest plan to repeal and replace obamacare. his no vote, along with two other republicans, murkowski and collins, was enough to squash the bill. >> they should have approved health care last night but you can't have everything. boy, oh, boy. they've been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? the swamp. >> joining me now one of the three republican senators who voted no on that legislation, senator susan collins of maine. thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, jake. >> so, senator, before i get to policy, i just have to ask, i saw this viral video of you getting off an airplane in bangor, maine, and a crowd of people spontaneously and organically applauding you. i don't know if that happens to you every time you get off an airplane in bangor, maine, but it was a pretty wrarkable thing. what is the response you're getting? >> it really was so extraordinary, heartwarming and

i'm jake tapper. where the state of our union is tense after a friday staffing shake-up, secretary and retired marine general john kelly is now fewer than 24 hours away from officially starting his new job as white house chief of staff. and one of his first orders of business could be dealing with an international crisis. just hours ago the u.s. military announced a skull test of its thaad missile defense system not long after flying u.s. bombers over the korean peninsula. this is in direct response to a friday ballistic missile launch by north korea. meanwhile president trump is taking aim at china saying he's very disappointed in that country. "they do nothing for us with north korea, just talk. we will no longer allow this to continue. china could easily solve this problem." all of this is sure to make for an interesting first day on the job for john kelly. he's also dealing with a white house in something of a chaotic situation plus the health care bill the president insists is still alive. joinin

i'm jake tapper. you can see me tonight at 7:o00 p.m. i'll be in for erin burnett on "out front." we turn to wolf blitzer in the situation room. >>> president trump's son-in-law jared kushner denies collusion with russia and says he has nothing to hide. >> mr. kushner, will you testify publicly? >> reporter: kushner insists all his actions with russian officials were proper. will lawmakers agree? >>> insulting sessions. president trump derides his attorney general, referring to jeff sessions as beleagured, referring to russia investigations. why is president trump attacking one of his most loyal supporters? >>> doing the right thing. the president ups the pressure on republican senators on health care. but some don't know exactly what they'll be voting on. we're standing here with the president live tonight. >>> and president putin. congress reaches a deal on sanctions against russia for its meddling in the u.s. presidential election, but president trump still refuses to admit russia's role. will he sign the sanctions bill? >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>

if that had been a picture not of the cnn log oh or individual oh or jake tapper's head he was punching works that cross a line for you? a picture of donald trump holding a bloodied cnn logo? when is across the line? >> you appear to have a listening problem, sally. i said not advisable to sent it out. >> you defended it. said it was a joke. >> it was just a joke. by the way, you should take and inward look. the hollywood liberal elite are the ones calling for the assassination of the president. johnny depp said something along those lines. >> there's a difference. >> and cut off the president's head, kathy griffin. >> kathy lost a job. >> i have condemned -- >> okay. what as chris matthews? >> i condemned that. >> wait a minute. almost sounds like -- we're having a conversation about justification, sounds like. the direction we're going, kayleigh, and sally. saying, it's justifiable on the condition that, dot, dot, dot, or fill in the blanks. really the question is, this is the president of the united states. and when the president speaks, whether it be via tweet or in any other fashio

you heard jake tapper mention that. u.s. intelligence community and its conclusion that russia did attack the united states with the 2016 election by cyber hacking. here is what president trump's own intel team has it say about it. >> can you tell us, is there any dissent within the u.s. intelligence on the question of whether the russians interfered with the -- >> there is no dissent, i stated that publicly. i stated that to the president. i am confident the russians meddled in this election as is the entire intelligence community. >> i stand behind the intelligence committee. the intelligence we produced in january. >> there you have it. as we mentioned, president trump will soon have to decide whether or not to support tougher sanctions on russia. his communications director, anthony scar movie hasn't yet decided but sarah huckabee sanders add different take on that issue. listen. >> we support where the legislation is now. we will continue working with the house and senate it put those tough sanctions in place on russia

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in an interview with our own jake tapper, the campaign manager was on right before him, suggested that the russians were trying to help trump in the campaign. right after that, donald trump jr. was interviewed by jake tapper and in that interview, he described it as what the clinton campaign was trying to do. it just goes to show you, their exact moral compass. this is time and time again, lie after lie. not only do we have those that you just talked about but this other timeline about him further saying he had nothing to do with it. nor did he think russia was trying to interfere with the election. clearly he knew at that time that russia was trying to interfere. >> so, david, people could argue about how important donald trump jr. was to the core of the campaign, right? but it wasn't him alone. it was paul manafort, then campaign chairman, and jared kushner who would go on to be one of the central advisers to the then campaign and now in the white house. how does that change things? >> it adds to the parade of people who have not disclosed meetings with the russians. i don't think th

i'm jake tapper. we're going to start with big breaking news in the politics lead today.omeone have predicted so much staff turnover from a man whose catch phrase is "you're fired"? adding to the growing list, it's anthony scaramucci gone after just a week and change on the job. his official start date was supposed to be mid-august, for what that's worth. in the last hour at the white house, president trump made no mention of the scaramucci departure, but we do expect to hear something more in the white house daily b

and he spoke to jake tapper this morning. >> republicans ran on repeal and replace. the president ran on repeal and replace. we've been working on that for about in our months, if leader mcconnell can get across the finish line i'd like to see that happen. it needs to be a good replace. if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay. i would want to delay so we could get straight to work, and i think the president should call on the senate to cancel our august state work period. i think we should get to work at around the clock hearings on the repeal and replace plan. >> dan malloy joins me now from hartfo hartford. if republicans can't agree on a replacement plan now what's going to change in august? >> nothing's going to change. i mean, the plan they have will take insurance away from 23 million people. 13 of them will be medicaid covered. they're breaking promise after promise after promise. the president said repeal and replace at the same time. now we ha

here's what he told jake tapper in july when asked about collusion -- s>> it shows their moral compas. they'll say anything to win. there is time after time, lie after lie. we hear experts -- his housecat at home once said this is what's happening with the russians. it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> for more on the meeting and why this russian lawyer asked for it, we'll bring in elise labat in washington. >> reporter: donald trump jr. says that he and two other senior members met with a russian lawyer who claims she had damaging information on hillary clinton. he says the meeting was set up by an acquaintance from the 2013 miss universe pageant that was held near moscow. that acquaintance told trump jr. that the individual might have information helpful to the campaign. this person turned out to be a russian lawyer who started the meeting saying she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee to help hillary clinton. trump jr. said this woman didn't bring any evidence, saying her statements were "vague, ambiguous, and made no se

i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. we begin today on world lead and north korea's first ever intercontinental ballistic missile launch. they're telling cnn the missile was brand new and hadn't been seen before and with the potential of possibly reaching alaska. this morning the u.n. council is holding an emergency meeting, and moments ago, the u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, sent a stern warning to north korea. >> the nature of the north korea regime is clear. only the scale of the damage it does could become different. that's why yesterday's escalation is so alarming. the north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now it has greater capacity to do so. >> i want to bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, how concerned are u.s. officials about this new missile? >> reporter: look, pamela, it may have been just a test by the north korea regime, but new information tonight about the threat it cou

i'm jake tapper. i'll see you again tonight at 7:00 p.m. on "out front."f blitze in "the situation room." thank you for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news, spicer out, white house press secretary sean spicer resigns after just six months on the job. this move coming as president trump appoints a new communications director who once called him a hack politician. >>> pardon me. the trump legal team is reportedly looking at ways to push back against the investigation by special council he will robedas counsel robert muell mueller? the white house is asked to preserve all documents on the white house meeting with russians, including his son. his son voluntarily testified to investigators. >>> the travel ban. the state department bars u.s. citizens to travel to north korea after the mysterious death of an american student who

though in one interesting exchange on "state of the union" with jake tapper, he said the president is still not convinced that russia was behind the hacking of democratic computers in the 2016 election. listen to what he said -- >> somebody said to me yesterday, i won't tell you who, that if the russians hacked this situation and spilled the emails you would have never seen it, would have never had evidence. meaning they're super confident in n deception skills and -- in their deception skills and talking. my point is all of the information isn't on the table yet, but here's what i know -- >> wait, anthony, you're making a lot of assertions here. i don't know who the anon-p.o.wanonymous person who said if the russians did it we wouldn't know -- >> how about it was the president, jake? i talked to him yesterday. he called me from air force one. >> yeah. >> he basically said to me, hey, maybe they did, it maybe they didn't do it. >> reporter: important to point out this last week several figures in the intelligence community reiterated the fact that there is zero doubt that russia was b

he was on, donald trump jr., with jake tapper. and asked, jake asked him to respond to hillary clinton campaign's manager robbie mook saying the russians were behind the dnc hack and leaking of information again. this interview was right after that meeting took place with the russian lawyer. watch this. >> well, it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again, lie after lie. it's disgusting. it's so phony. i watched them bumble through the interview. i was able to hear it on audio a little bit. i can't think of bigger lies. that goes to show you what the dnc and the clinton camp will do. they will lie and do anything to win. >> so if these reports are true -- go on. >> this is -- you could not find anything more duplicitous. a few weeks before this, he had met with people representing the kremlin, told that they were interested in providing material, damaging to hillary clinton. and then after that, he goes on to cnn and tells jake tapper that this is all

i'm jake tapper, and this is what we know this hour. e-mails, preemptively released by trump

told our jake tapper in july when asked about collusion -- >> it shows their moral compass. say anything to win. i mean, this is time and time again, lie after lie. he won't say, i say this -- we hear experts, his house cat at home once said this is what's happening with the russians. it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> for more on the meeting and -- the white house is fighting back against the bipartisan furor sparked by president trump's meeting with vladimir putin. over the weekend the president appeared to agree with the assessment that russia did not meddle in the u.s. election tweeting, "i strongly pressed president putin twice about meddling in our election, he vehemently denied it. i've already given my opinion." each the president's -- even the president's closest allies are distancing themselves says from his position on russian meddling. listen to u.n. ambassador nikki haley. >> everybody knows that russia meddled in our elections. everybody knows they're not just meddling in the united states elections, they're doing this across multiple continents and doing this

i'm jake tapper. it's unclear if the new communications director anthony scaramucci has ever heard george carlin's seven words you can't say on tv. in just seven days since walking into the white house, he has conquered at least seven to share with you the breaking news from the white house today, but we'll proceed in an interview with the new yorker. he went after several officials with a tapestry of profanity that as far as we know is is still hanging over space in the potomac. he then did an impression of chief of staff reince priebus leaking about a dinner scaramucci was having. quote, let me leak the [ bleep ]ing thing and see if i can [ bleep ] block these people the way i [ bleep ] blocked scaramucci for six months. it might not be paranoia if they really are out to get you. he then went on to burn steve bannon. i'm not steve bannon, i'm not trying to suck my own bleep, i'm not trying to build my own brand off the bleeping strength of the president. i'm here to serve country. chief of staff for

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special coverage continues with jake tapper. >>> thanks, brooke. how much longer will the attorney general be able to take all this trolling? snoot le "the lead" starts right now. >>> attorney general sessions once again. how far is the president willing to go to stop the russia probe? >>> breaking news. tiebreaker. the vice president casting the vote to advance debate on health care legislation in the senate. the gop now closer to actually killing obamacare, closer than ever before. >>> plus, look, they can work together. republican rand paul, and ms. harris talking to me about the issue bringing them together. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead "snooch." i'm jake tapper. so much going on in the white house right now. president trump just reacted to the vote on health care in the rose garden. he talked about his public humiliation to push out attorney general jeff sessions. >> i'm very disappointed in the attorney general, but we'll see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. >> the president once again said sessions should n

i'm jake tapper. we were just listening to president trump there kicking off "made in america" week at the white house, showing off all kinds of america-made products showing everything from the gibson guitars behind him to landscaping tools. he and vice president pence went outside where they saw a yacht, a fire truck from wisconsin, a forklift from mississippi, golf clubs from arizona, door hinges from new jersey, all these things were made in the united states. the president talked about the importance of repealing obamacare. he talked about deregulation and tax reform. jason carroll joins me from the white house. jason, trying to get the focus off russia and on to the president's agenda, in this case, made in the usa. >> reporter: right, that's what the focus will be about all this week. the president and his administration wants it to be about all things being made in america. but the new cycle has really been about russia, russia and russia, not america. so this is part of what you're seeing tod

when one of the president's lawyers appeared on cnn's state of the union, jake tapper asked about the ethical question surrounding the meeting. here's part of that interview. >> the legality was the meeting, and what took place, legal or not, we, of course, almost every legal expert says it's not illegal. you're trying to put a moral, ethical aspect to it, it's easy to do that in 20/20 hindsight. not when you're in the middle of a campaign. i wasn't a campaign lawyer, i'm not a campaign lawyer. meetings were taking place as donald trump jr. said, 15, 20 minutes apart, this one went even shorter. everyone that's looking backwards and saying, would have, should have, could have. donald trump jr. said he would have done some things differently. to go back a year later and say, this is what should have happened. when the meeting itself was 20 minutes. i don't think that's fair to donald trump jr. to jared kushner or manafort for that matter. no one was in a situation of that kind of campaigning in the middle of a presidential election. >> donald trump jr. was asked this week if he met wit

i'm jake tapper. and you're watching cnn. be careful on the elliptical.nt-elect donald trump has, uh -- he's made some unconventional picks for his cabinet. here to help make sense of this is trump senior adviser

i'm jake tapper. you can follow me on twitter or @jaketapper.tion room. >>> back from the dead. a day after giving up on the health care plan and saying he would let obamacare fail, president trump brings senate leaders to the white house as they try to bring the repeal and replace effort back to life. that lunch may have been tough to swallow for certain leaders, but mitch mcconnell said there will be a motion to proceed on health care next week. there is no indication if he has the votes to make it work. >>> president trump seems to offer a veiled threat to one health car

i'm jake tapper. breaking and stunning news in our politics lead today, the release of an e-mail chain from last june between donald trump jr. and this man, rob goldstone, a british-born reporter, publicist and associate of the trump family dating back to the miss universe pageant in mcow in 2013. the subject line of the e-mail chain, russia climate, clinton e-mails. they tell us the prosecutor general met with another trump associate with whom the trumps befriended during the 2013 moscow adventure. and that's this man, real estate developer arus agalara who licensed the miss universe pageant from the trumps. the prosecutor, quote, offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. it goes on to say, quote, this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and it's government support for mr. trump, unquote. goldstone writes he could also s

the lead, i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start with breaking news.e not far from the g20 summit in hammburg, germany where president trump arrived and meeting with world leaders this week. he's about two miles away from the site of these protests and riot police are trying to clear the street after a violent crash erupted not long ago. at one point, officers sprayed water cannon as you see right here, right towards the crowd as protesters threw smoke bombs. fred planken joins me now, what's happening? >> reporter: hi pam, as you can see and hear, it's a vocal protest. that's why we're going to go to the middle of it. it's calmed down a

an eventful back and forth there with jake tapper. but look, with these sanctions, approved it 98-2, they can't agree on anything. is this the republicans' first time where they are checking the president, telling him they did interfere in our election, here's what we think about it? >> well, it seems that way. and i think one of the things that's really unfortunate for the american people when you listen to the the talk about russia, specifically on twitter, he acts as if it's democrats alone who are concerned about the meddling into the election -- >> the media. >> the media. >> some of the more vocal critics have been republicans. and the reality is that he needs to see what his own party members are seeing and take it the same way they're taking it. and the way he moves forward if he wants to promote party unity. >> yeah. and there's -- there are a lot of successful people in business who are very successful because they are contrarians. they see the set of circumstances that everyone agrees on and don't accept them. it's just by

i am jake tapper. follow me on twitter and i turn you over to jim in the situation room. >>> happening now, very standard, president trump goes to paris where he goes to great lengths to defend his son's meeting with a russian lawyer. the president says most would have taken the meeting calling it standard in the political world. >>> summiting don. senate republican wants donald trump jr. to testify soon about his russian contacts. and warns he can subpoena paul manafort who also met with the russian lawyer. democrats are calling for action against jared kushner who did the same. >>> dou

i'm jake tapper. we're going to start with the politics lead. the president's family and inner circle going to capitol hill to face tough questions about the russians. today jared kushner was not under oath and he spoke privately, not in a public hearing. afterwards at the white house, kushner read a statement in which he denied any collusion with russia. that echoed his earlier 11-page statement where he also downplayed four meetings with russians last year. tomorrow kushner will face the house intelligence committee, and then wednesday jared kushner, donald trump jr. and paul manafort will meet the senate judiciary committee also in private and also not under oath. lawmakers, it's unclear whether they're satisfied with kushner's answers. >> reporter: jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, tried today to put to rest mounting questions about meetings with russian officials which are now a key part into the investigation of russian meddling in the election. in rare public comments to the white house, kushner insisted his me

i'm jake tapper, and this is what we know this hour. e-mails, preemptively released by trump junior just before they were about to be released by "the new york times" show in 2016 trump junior was explicitly offered damaging information about hillary clinton. the e-mail claiming to trump junior at the incriminating information, quote, is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump, unquote. in a new interview tonight, trump junior says he did not tell his father about a meet with the russian lawyer last year following up ones the e-mails. he claimed there was nothing to tell. but in "the new york times," they are reporting this evening that president trump was involved in the damage control about this story in recent days. signing off on his son's initial and incomplete account of his meet with that russian lawyer. tonight, cnn learned that bob mueller is planning to investigate that meeting and that donald trump jr.'s e-mail exchanges will be part of the investigation as well. details of the contacts were not fully known to

i'm jake tapper in for erin burnett. pushing jeff sessions to the brick.esident trying to force his attorney general to quit? sessions, who has not spoken with the

is talk to go jake tapper saying, this is disgusting, the mere notion that there could be anything fromt or that the trump campaign could have anything to do with it. had he forgotten that e-mail chain? had he forgotten that meeting that was disappointing because there was no dirt? he was taking such offense, showing such outrage, and we know now pure, pure theater. >> if it wasn't such a big deal and it was nothing, why would he invite jared kushner and paul manafort? >> why didn't jared kushner mention it when he was getting his security clearance? there are so many questions here, and that's important because we have not come to the summit. this is going on and on. we're six months into this administration, and there is nothing i see that suggests to me that six months from now, at the year mark, we're not still going to be rummaging through all this. they cannot get this behind them and that means they can't move forward to do any of those things one needs to do when they're governing. >> my show is on in the evening well after the white house briefing has taken place. i can only im

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i'm jake tapper. and you're watching cnn. be careful on the elliptical.ump has, uh -- he's made some unconventional picks for his cabinet. here to help make sense of this is trump senior adviser kellyanne conway.